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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

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577 points simonw | 1 comments | 29 Jul 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pamelafox ◴[29 Jul 25 14:13 UTC] No.44723651[source]▶
Alas, my 3 year old Mac has only 16 GB RAM, and can barely run a browser without running out of memory. It's a work-issued Mac, and we only get upgrades every 4/5 years. I must be content with 8B parameters models from Ollama (some of which are quite good, like llama3.1:8b).
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GaggiX ◴[29 Jul 25 14:18 UTC] No.44723697[source]▶
Reasoning models like qwen3 are even better, and they have more options, for example you can choose the 14B model (at the usual 4KM quantization) instead of the 8B model.
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pamelafox ◴[29 Jul 25 14:37 UTC] No.44723986[source]▶
Are they quantized more effectively than the non-reasoning models for some reason?
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1. GaggiX ◴[29 Jul 25 14:40 UTC] No.44724022[source]▶
There is no difference, you can choose a 6 bits quantization if you prefer, at that point it's essentially lossless.